WASHINGTON – Last night, Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) joined Greg Kelly Reports on Newsmax to discuss the assassination of Charlie Kirk, his introduction of  H.R. 5177 – "The WEIGH Act," and the impending passage of his bill, H.R. 4922 – "The D.C. CRIMES Act."

Watch the full interview here.

"I think Leader Thune should put this bill on the floor immediately in the Senate. Let Senate Democrats decide they don’t want a safe Washington D.C. - that'll be on them":

"That’s correct, actually coming out of committee was bipartisan. We had one Democrat vote with all Republicans on that bill [H.R. 4922]. We anticipate it's going to pass off of the House floor tomorrow. They'll probably be some Democrats that'll join us. Frankly, all Democrats should join us, but we’ll see how that goes and then it'll go to the Senate and we’ll see what Leader Thune and Chuck Schumer decide to do. I think Leader Thune should put this bill on the floor immediately in the Senate. Let Senate Democrats decide they don’t want a safe Washington D.C. - that'll be on them. But what we have to do is make sure that the policies of the federal enclave, Washington D.C., are here to protect all Americans and that the people who live in D.C., they’re protected as well."

"If California doesn’t want to do what is right, which is making sure that our roadways are protected from illegal aliens, and people who can't even read our signs then they don’t deserve federal money. That’s what the Weight Act does:"

"The state of Florida, after that horrific crash, started using some of the weigh stations in Florida to also do checks on whether people were able to be proficient in English and also look at their CDL license. So we looked at what the state of Florida did and we’re taking that same action using the President’s executive order to codify that into law and allow for the Department of Transportation to use every weigh station in the United States to check for English proficiency with people who are driving these large trucks with CDLs and to make sure that their CDL is actually valid and they should have that license. This is common sense policy and I would say the stick is, is that if you have a state like, let’s say, California that says that they don’t want to do that in their state. Well, then they're subject to lose federal funding for transportation. If California doesn’t want to do what is right, which is making sure that our roadways are protected from illegal aliens, and people who can't even read our signs then they don’t deserve federal money. That’s what the Weight Act does, we anticipate that'll get a hearing here in Congress very, very, very, very soon."

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